Border Patrol is using predictive policing to look at Americans financial histories and pulling them over for it.
https://www.404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-predictive-policing-unit-is-analyzing-americans-financial-habits-and-pulling-them-over/
You do have to sign up so I asked Chatgpt what this was:
The concerning part is that the people being targeted aren't necessarily suspected of a specific crime. Instead, the government appears to be using patterns in data to decide who might be worth investigating, and then passing that information to local police.
Government databases/data → PITT analyst → “suspicious” person/vehicle → local police → traffic stop → possible search/investigation
The article's central example is a man named Kyle William Olson, who was driving through Montana.
A Border Patrol analyst, Matthew Phelps, looked at Olson's information and said he found financial activity patterns that were “commonly associated with illicit narcotics activity.” He also looked at Olson's previous arrest/criminal history. Phelps then passed information to a local police sergeant, who stopped Olson for an obstructed license plate.
Olson ultimately faced a DUI charge and authorities found marijuana-related items in his vehicle. Importantly, though, the financial-data analysis was what initially caused Border Patrol to flag him, not evidence that officers had observed him committing a crime at that moment.
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You do have to sign up so I asked Chatgpt what this was:
The concerning part is that the people being targeted aren't necessarily suspected of a specific crime. Instead, the government appears to be using patterns in data to decide who might be worth investigating, and then passing that information to local police.
Government databases/data → PITT analyst → “suspicious” person/vehicle → local police → traffic stop → possible search/investigation
The article's central example is a man named Kyle William Olson, who was driving through Montana.
A Border Patrol analyst, Matthew Phelps, looked at Olson's information and said he found financial activity patterns that were “commonly associated with illicit narcotics activity.” He also looked at Olson's previous arrest/criminal history. Phelps then passed information to a local police sergeant, who stopped Olson for an obstructed license plate.
Olson ultimately faced a DUI charge and authorities found marijuana-related items in his vehicle. Importantly, though, the financial-data analysis was what initially caused Border Patrol to flag him, not evidence that officers had observed him committing a crime at that moment.
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